Google code disappears

Repent, the end is near. Google has just announced that they are shutting down google code project hosting. In the email of the announcement they make some suggestions to find a new house for your code such as bitbucket or github. I hope that they have been warned in order to be ready for a massive repository creation from the upcoming exodus of coder refugees.

At the time of writing this, there is a button to automate the migration only to github but it is NOT working due to the high amount of traffic and workload that they are experiencing.

But you can still move your stuff manually. Here are some easy-to-follow steps to move your code from google to github just using your command line.

0 .Go to google code

It is not as obvious as it may seem. Once you log in google is impossible to find a simple link to see your projects. Google is not specially good at usability, but hey, when your shares are valued at >500$ who gives a fuck. Nevermind, go to https://code.google.com/hosting/
and check My favorites

1. Checkout project

Enter into the project you want to migrate and select Source. Copy the command to checkout your code, with read-only is enough.

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